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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53216" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:21:43.935Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:13:08.599Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53216" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53216.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53216" title: "arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock\n\nRunning a rt-kernel base on 6.2.0-rc3-rt1 on an Ampere Altra outputs\nthe following:\n BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46\n in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 9, name: kworker/u320:0\n preempt_count: 2, expected: 0\n RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\n 3 locks held by kworker/u320:0/9:\n #0: ffff3fff8c27d128 ((wq_completion)efi_rts_wq){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41)\n #1: ffff80000861bdd0 ((work_completion)(&efi_rts_work.work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41)\n #2: ffffdf7e1ed3e460 (efi_rt_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: efi_call_rts (drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c:101)\n Preemption disabled at:\n efi_virtmap_load (./arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h:248)\n CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/u320:0 Tainted: G W 6.2.0-rc3-rt1\n Hardware name: WIWYNN Mt.Jade Server System B81.03001.0005/Mt.Jade Motherboard, BIOS 1.08.20220218 (SCP: 1.08.20220218) 2022/02/18\n Workqueue: efi_rts_wq efi_call_rts\n Call trace:\n dump_backtrace (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:158)\n show_stack (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:165)\n dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107 (discriminator 4))\n dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:114)\n __might_resched (kernel/sched/core.c:10134)\n rt_spin_lock (kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1769 (discriminator 4))\n efi_call_rts (drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c:101)\n [...]\n\nThis seems to come from commit ff7a167961d1 (\"arm64: efi: Execute\nruntime services from a dedicated stack\") which adds a spinlock. This\nspinlock is taken through:\nefi_call_rts()\n\\-efi_call_virt()\n \\-efi_call_virt_pointer()\n \\-arch_efi_call_virt_setup()\n\nMake 'efi_rt_lock' a raw_spinlock to avoid being preempted.\n\n[ardb: The EFI runtime services are called with a different set of\n translation tables, and are permitted to use the SIMD registers.\n The context switch code preserves/restores neither, and so EFI\n calls must be made with preemption disabled, rather than only\n disabling migration.]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4012603cbd469223f225637d265a233f034c567a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"030b1c4217a4f504c7d0795a2bd86b7181e56f11"},{"version":"de2af657cab92afc13a4ccd8780370481ed0eb61","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a72729ed6accc86dad5522895e8fa2f96642a2c"},{"version":"f75a91c82dc805af8f718ff106ec9c090234b37b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b38969fa01662ec539a0d08a8ea5ec6f31fa4ed"},{"version":"ff7a167961d1b97e0e205f245f806e564d3505e7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e8f7d998b582a99aadedd07ae6086e99b89c97a"},{"version":"ff7a167961d1b97e0e205f245f806e564d3505e7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e68b5517d3767562889f1d83fdb828c26adb24f"},{"version":"5.10.165","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.175"},{"version":"5.15.90","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.103"},{"version":"6.1.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"5.10.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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